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New Delhi, Nov 21: India's Aditi Chauhan on Thursday added another feather to her cap, as she won the Woman in Football Award at the third Asian Football Awards in London. In doing so, the Delhi girl handed herself the perfect birthday present, which she celebrated a day later on Friday. The 23-year-old's competition for the award included Tanvie Hans and Monica Sharma Fulham and London Bari LFC

London, Nov 20: India's Rohan Bopanna and Romanian Florin Mergea entered the semi-finals of the prestigious $7 million ATP World Tour Finals despite going down to Italian pairing of Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli in their men's doubles third match of the round robin encounter here on Thursday. The fifth seeds Fognini-Bolelli completed their campaign with a 6-1, 1-6, 10-5 victory in 61 minutes

Barcelona, Nov 18: FC Barcelona's star striker Neymar could be forced to leave the Spanish club due to his ongoing tax fraud case, according to the Brazilian's father Neymar da Silva Santos. A Brazilian court has frozen 31.3 million pounds ($47.6 million) worth of assets belonging to the Barcelona forward, his family and related businesses. The 23-year-old is alleged to have evaded 10.5 million

Hyderabad, Nov 18: Having won two Grand Slams and become world number one in women's doubles this year, Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza does not really want to do anything different for the next season. "I hope I don't do anything differently... To be very honest, it has been an amazing year for me. To end the year at number one player in the world, also to be the number one team in the world, also

Kowloon (Hong Kong), Nov 17: The Indian badminton team received a major jolt ahead of the Hong Kong Open as Saina Nehwal decided to pull out of the USD 350,000 event after complaints of severe pain in her legs. Despite achieving the World No.1 spot this year, the Indian ace has only been able to clinch one Superseries title in 2015 -- the India Open in March. Though she won the India Grand Prix

New Delhi, Nov 17: Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh on Monday met Haryana Chief Minister M L Khattar and offered his support to any government initiative aimed at promoting sports in the state. Vijender, who turned professional earlier this year, is on his first trip to India after making the transition. The 30-year-old former Olympic and World Championships bronze-medallist won both the bouts he

Nov 16: Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea started their campaign at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finale with a bang, beating top seeds and defending champions Bob and Mike Bryan in straight sets in their men's doubles opening rubber of Group Ashe/Smith. Making their debut as a team, the eighth seeded Indo-Romanian pair took an hour to register a 6-4 6-3 win over the

New Delhi, Nov 16: Nico Rosberg on Sunday won the Brazilain Grand Prix ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton and compatriot Sebastian Vettel. During the race, Hamilton got close to his Mercedes team-mate on a few occasions, but failed to go past him at the famous Interlagos track. Rosberg converted pole position into victory and finished 7.7secs ahead of Hamilton. The win also guarantees Rosberg of a

Fuzhou (China), Nov 15: Indian ace shuttler Saina Nehwal's dream of defending her women's singles title came crashing as she suffered a straight-game defeat to Olympic champion Li Xuerui in the final of the USD 700,000 China Open Super Series Premier here today. The Olympic bronze medallist Saina, committed a litany of unforced errors to go down 12-21 15-21 against World No. 7 Li in the women's

Fuzhou (China), Nov 14: Another stupendous performance saw defending champion Saina Nehwal enter the women’s singles final of the $700,000 China Open Superseries Premier with a victory over local girl and former World Champion Yihan Wang here on Saturday. The top seed needed just 42 minutes to ease past the former World No.1 Chinese 21-13, 21-18 at the Haixia Olympic Sports Centre. This is Saina’s